Instrument Engineer
Orion Group · Aberdeen City, Scotland
Instrument Engineer at Orion Group, based in Aberdeen City, Scotland. This is a contract role.
- Salary
- Competitive
- Location
- Aberdeen City, Scotland
- Contract
- Contract
- Posted
- 3 weeks ago
- Closes
- 17 Aug 2026
Reference TR/083117
About the role
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Instrument Engineer, based in Aberdeen. This is as 12-month PAYE contract role.
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and company HSES Procedures
- Supports Instrument SECE degradation / threat management risk assessments and maintenance deferment risk assessments
- Responsible for monitoring equipment/system performance initiating and ensuring corrective actions.
- Responsible for discipline engineering and maintenance support to UK operations
- Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with company’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required
- Provide discipline support to operated assets and project teams
- Deliver maintenance plans/programs to ensure cost effective operation and asset integrity throughout facility lifetime
- Fully adhere to planning processes to ensure ‘right first time’ delivery of instrument workscopes
- Responsible to provide budget input/scope for maintenance and modifications
- Responsible for continuously challenging technical solutions, engineering performance and cost of modification projects
- Review vendor workpacks to ensure compliance with performance standard requirements
- Coordinate & robustly manage vendors to successfully deliver planned maintenance
- Collaborate with key vendors to collectively problem solve/deliver complex scope
- Raise TWMs where complex technical solutions and modifications are required
- Provide an optimised preventive maintenance program, including detailed work packages
- Responsible for equipment performance including spare part management and warranty follow up
- Own management of change for non like-for-like instrument scopes
- Mobilise offshore as and when required by business.
- ER Allowance - The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota should this become a requirement of the position
Experience & Qualifications:
- Educated to engineering degree level or satisfactory equivalent e.g. HND/HNC plus preferable qualifications/experience and/or vocational certificates
- Membership of professional body working towards Chartership preferred
- Operational and engineering experience preferred
- Developing relevant technical experience.
- Offshore experience
- Understanding of processes required to meet HSE objectives. Fully conversant with UK regulatory environment
- Developing understanding of company’s Corporate and Local budget, maintenance and project management processes and tools
- Self-driven. Strong personal leadership and drive toward teamwork. Ability to perform effectively within a strong peer group and to drive toward optimal business solutions
- Good communication, influencing, negotiating and networking skills. Builds excellent relationships. Respected internally and externally
- Acceptance of ambitious, yet realistic goals and targets, and consistently achieve these.
Contract position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference:
TR/083117.
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.
Reference: TR/083117 · Posted 3 weeks ago · Closes 17 Aug 2026 · Listed via Orion Group
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